The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-05-27

A PROHIBITION State convention began IN /
Detroit, Mich, on the 17th-
THE position of president OF the Ohio State |
University has been offered to ex-President |
Rutherford B. Hayes.
MAYOR ROCHE, Of Chicago, has issued an
order to stop at once the piling and filing IN |
If the lake front This order is directed |
against the Illinois Central Railway Com
pany which has acquired in this way land
worth millions Of dollars, and the title to
which is now being contested IN the courts
DR. NJ. r. ELLIOTT, of Aberdeen, Oak,
mas been arrested, charged with having
caused the death of a child and its mother
by criminal malpractice.
IT was reported at San Francisco that
the transcontinental roads would boycott
the American connections of the Canadian
Pacific road.
IT is said that A. w. Swan, the Wyoming
catt.e king, who recently failed, was made
the victim Of a gigantic confidence game
some time previously whereby he lost S3OO,-
600 at one sweep.
THE distillery at Des Moines, Iowa, has
I been served with notice that under the
ruling Of the Supreme Court 1t must close
mn. About 81, 600 gallons of beer in yats
have been seized at Mates brewery, at the
same place, which win be destroyed on ad-
I vice Of the Attorney General.
CHARLES /. MAGINNIs has been appointed
]
Mimi.
TnE grain rate cut by the Chicago & At
lantic road to Ohio points has been praoti-
/ cally restored.
NEARLY an entire block mainly occupied
/ by a slaughter house, in South San Francis
co was destroyed by fire the other night
| loss, S75 600.
FoREsr fires have started again in the
! Michigan peninsula.
TuE recent lockout of the brick manufac-
turers of Chicago threw 5000 men out OF
work.
TIE first business meeting OF the thirty
third annual session of the Western Uni
tartan Conference was held in Chicago on
the 18th Hon. ID. L. Shorey occupied the
chair and an address of welcome was de
| livered by Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, which
was responded to by President Shorey
+ Rev. j. Ehiuger, secretary, submitted 8
vouminOus report.
I . THE west-OOund passenger train on the
Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe railroad rar
into a bunch of cattle twenty miles east o.
Denver Col, on the 18th, ditchlng the en-
CINE, mail and express cars. OF thre'
3 tramps stealing a ride one named Moor
was killed and the other two slightly in
jured.
L1eHTNING recently killed one man anC
7 severely injured two others who were a
work on a farm near Cairo, Ill.
- / 1HE TGpOTNCQ MAiALGoONd GehA III 4AAS oAO1i
Z was found to have been a terrific explosion
q of nitro glycerine at Spirit lake, eight mile
| from Duluth. The nitrO-glycerine amounte
T. to about four tons Two men were though
to have been killed
Mrs. JOHN BOYD, of Grand Rapids, Mich
: has obtained judgment Of $500 agains
a Rockford saloonkeeper for selling whisk
> to her husband, causing him to comml
murder
10 THE coopers of Minneapolis have organ
G lied an association which agrees to pa
+ journeymen fifteen cents per barrel an
furnish barrels to the mills at forty cent
each.
TuE strikers at the cement factory q
= Akron, o., have returned to work at an az
vance IN wages.
; GRACE LESLIE, leading lady of the Kat
= Castleton troupe, was killed in a railroa
4 accident recently at Salida, Col.
= FUILY 1000 people we're fighting fore
fires on the Michigan peninsula on the l9t
and a repetition OF the awful Portage fl
:, was feared. Fire appeared to be raglr
- everywhere
= THE foreclosure sale of the Nickel Plat
road at Cleveland, o., on the 10Th was
-. very formal affair The road was purchase
~ on the first bid for SIC, 100000 by Frederic
- o. p. Olcott, chairman of the Nickel Pla
~ purchasing committee, for the bOndholder
= committee, which is made up of Mr.. Olcot
e ! William X. Vanderbilt, James A. Rooseve
= | and j. S. Kennedy
a. 1T is reported in Indianapolis that elev'
- indictments for election frauds have be-
n returned by the United States grand jur
II n HENRY r. PENDERY, formerly of Leave
-, worth. Kan, but now Of Colorado, has be
appointed register of the land Office at Lea
.;a vile, Col.
80 THE General Assembly of the Presbyt'
ian Church, South, was in session at
,u Louis on the 18th and Goth. The Presbyt'
ian Church, North, was in session at On
~ ha, Neb., on the same days, with large
IL tendance.
- LAKE LINDEN, or Torch Lake, Mich, W
,o devastated by fire on the night of the 2O
The loss was put as hign as s., 100000, w
e $3.50, 900 insurance. The destruction Of
90 town was thought to be due to ths for
~ fires which had prevailed in the vicinity
some time previously.